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Online OCR - How to use it
The OCR.space Online OCR service converts scans or (smartphone) images of text documents into editable files by using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The OCR software also can get text from PDF.
Our Online OCR service is free to use, no registration necessary. Just upload your image files. The OCR software takes JPG, PNG, GIF images or PDF documents as input. PDF OCR supports multi-page documents and multi-column text. The only restriction of the free online OCR that the images/PDF must not be larger than 5MB. If you need to automate your OCR and process many documents, do not web-scrape this page. It is made for humans, not computers. Instead, please use the free OCR API.
Your data is safe: This Online OCR service and the OCR API store no data, as outlined in our strict privacy policy.
Supported OCR languages
The two OCR Engines use different recognition methods and support different OCR languages. We recommend that you try each one to find out which one works best for your documents. If you need help selecting the best OCR engine for your project, please contact us.
| OCR Language: | OCR Engine 1 | OCR Engine 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic OCR | Yes | - |
| Bulgarian OCR | Yes | - |
| Chinese OCR (Simplified and traditional characters) | Yes | Yes (including vertical OCR) |
| Croatian OCR | Yes | - |
| Danish OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch OCR | Yes | Yes |
| English OCR (*) | Yes | Yes |
| Finnish OCR | Yes | Yes |
| French OCR | Yes | Yes |
| German OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Greek OCR | Yes | - |
| Hindi OCR | (Planned) | - |
| Hungarian OCR | Yes | - |
| Italian OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Japanese OCR | Yes | Yes (including vertical OCR) |
| Korean OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Kannada OCR | (Planned) | - |
| Norwegian OCR | - | Yes |
| Persian(Farsi) OCR | (Planned) | - |
| Polish OCR | Yes | - |
| Portuguese OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Russian OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Slovenian OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Swedish OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Tamil OCR | (Planned) | - |
| Telugu OCR | (Planned) | - |
| Thai OCR | - | Yes |
| Turkish OCR | Yes | - |
| Ukrainian OCR | Yes | Yes |
| Vietnamese OCR | - | Yes |
Special characters like §%&()=@€ | Yes (limited) | Yes |
| Language autodetection | - | Yes |
(*) English OCR is always included: In addition to the selected OCR language (e. g. Japanese), the English alphabet is also recognized.